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Eye On Design: HR Giger’s Necronom 2005 (Alien 3 Model)

giger alien model 1 at new museum photo by gail worley
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In France in 1975, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon was collaborating with Director Alejandro Jodorowsky  on an adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s 1965 novel, Dune, when he met the artist HR Giger. Jodorowsky had been introduced to Giger’s work by Salvador Dali, and had brought him on to create designs for the film.

While the feature ultimately fell through, O’Bannon couldn’t get Giger’s drawings out of his head. The screenwriter recalled “ending up writing a script about a Giger monster,” which would eventually become the influential franchise Alien.
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